“There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary [...]
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“… the goal is not to “get rid of” any part of this mechanism (the internal “mechanism” that energizes humans to achieve success). The goal is to redirect and reprogram it so that it achieves what WE choose — not the choices made FOR us by parents, teachers and society when we were too young [...]
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“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”—John Webster
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I’ve known many caged birds. Often even they had convinced themselves that they were singing. But there always came a time when they realized they were crying. I can temporarily convince myself, or put up a front that convinces others, that I “feel” just about any [...]
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“I don’t know what’s out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder head up, eyes steady and heart open, I think one day you’ll find that You’re the hero you’ve been lookin’ for!”
— Wylie Burp to Fievel (Fievel Goes West)
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I hope my kids let this rattle around in their heads for a long [...]
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“What makes a happy marriage? It is a question which all men and women ask one another…. The answer is to be found, I think, in the mutual discovery, by two who marry, of the deepest need of the other’s personality, and the satisfaction of that need.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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Each of us spends all [...]
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“I’ve looked in all the places you aren’t, I just can’t find the place you are. I wish you were here to tell me where you are. I only know that you are where I am not. I need you to come here and find me; ’cause without you I’m totally lost.”
–Winnie the Pooh
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*L* … [...]
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“Our concern must be to live while we’re alive … to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Living by the “shoulda’s” and the “oughta’s”— definitely one of the three greatest reasons for unhappiness [...]
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“Much of what we think of as true about ourselves is an elaborate construction of beliefs, prejudices, fears, half-truths, and so on. Beneath that debris of misinformation, there is a true, good, discoverable self. It’s not something you have to create or improve. It’s something that has always been there, but you’ve lost it. True [...]
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” … passion is the path. It is the way to self-realization. Even in earthly terms it can be fairly said that if you have a passion for nothing, you have not life at all.”
—Neale Donald Walsch “Conversations With God”
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The problem that I see all too often is that having PASSION (for anything!) is a [...]
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
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How true that is! But I had to learn that really great people are not where one might expect them to be. Before I met my [...]
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